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How's the Detective Career?
aaronrulz
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I've had Get To Work since the pack came out and I never played the Detective career. crazy, right? I've read posts on here in the past that it's buggy so I never tried it. Does it work well these days?
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when i was playing it last time it was quite buggy tho but that might also be my own fault for trying to edit things and also i was playing with rather potato computer
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Its one of my favorites but only works correctly if you don't use any cc at all. Because cc is most often not color binned correctly, the APB descriptions get all wacky. Without, I don't typically run into any major bugs.
As for bugs there's a bug where in the "find suspect" event it'll list the suspects every day outfit, but they'll be wearing their hot/cold weather outfit instead so the description of who you're looking for is totally useless but other than that no issue.
Let it be said when the pack was first introduced these bugs were not present.
But once CL was added due to situational outfits the game put on Sims even your own there arose a lot of problems.
1. Sims at the jail may not spawn. These were non playable and were there for you to fill some tasks like frisk prisoners etc. They also started just walking off so that task (can't remember what it's called) or fingerprinting etc. could not be done etc. At the first of this pack the game counted these characters as Sims so they counted against the head count of how many for population count. Just like the game counted dummies in the stores as Sims. But they increased the population counts so they shouldn't be a problem anymore.
2. Due to CL Sims who were the actual suspect were no longer dressing in the clues that were given. This became a huge problem and game breaking since the player couldn't fill the task to arrest the right Sim. It was still present about a year ago since random situational outfits still happen I would assume.
3. There was a problem with going back to work only to find out employees were ghosts and or replaced by ghosts (GT) pack
4. There was a problem about the chief remaining the chief so it was a problem to get the promotion, I don't know if they ever fixed it.
5. Lots where you went to get/ find the clues did not clean up (reset) after they had spots and other stuff left on them. You could see this stuff from the distances etc.
If you can't book the suspect I would call that game breaking. These things happened several times after the packs of CL, GT, Seasons and many others. The detective career became one of the most buggy things about TS4. I know I spent three years begging for fixes. Whether it's actually fixed or not will have to be proved to me. Note these were not all the bugs after they started adding more packs and patches.
But it was interesting and you had lots of time to play other things while at work. Hope they fixed it for those who gave them a zillion chances and seven years to fix it after they kept breaking it.
The workaround I found at the time was to keep track of which sims fit everything except the outfit clues, go back to the station without making an arrest, and put out another APB. If only one of those sims showed up on the second lot also, that was my suspect.
That was the only bug I had but I last played it in early 2019.
I liked the detective career in the Sims 3! I played in 'roaring heights' Great Gatsby 1940s world, where I had a 1940s fixer upper that I fixed up and played the detective it was awesome. I think it works with an open world as you drive to different locations looking for clues in story missions.